I have gone ahead and bought the Louis Lyon book that BC recommended. Since it's short and I have read his "all you want to know about maths..." books and enjoyed his style. As a more indepth book(should I need it) its a toss up between the famous Taylor book (simply because it's well known) and this one I have been recommended below:
Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences
by Philip Bevington
I like the sound of this as it has access to C++ programs and it makes reference to monte carlo method, which John Denker mentioned. Has anyone read this book?
I am going back to uni to do an MSc after 10 yrs and thought I had better do it properly this time.. Not just fudge my error calcs :)
Thanks again
Thanks for the advice
--- On Tue, 2/6/09, Richard L. Bowman <rbowman@bridgewater.edu> wrote:
From: Richard L. Bowman <rbowman@bridgewater.edu>
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Some recommendations please
To: "Forum for Physics Educators" <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Date: Tuesday, 2 June, 2009, 12:39 PM
Alex, I have found the book by D. C. Baird, "Experimentation: An Introduction to Measurement Theory and Experiment Design," 3rd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995) to be a useful book at the undergraduate level.